Texts, Ideas, and the Classics
Scholarship, Theory, and Classical Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 September 2001
- ISBN 9780199247462
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 224x145x23 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This collection of essays by leading scholars argues that, in the contemporary context of the study and interpretation of classical literature at universities, traditional classical scholarship and modern theoretical ideas need to work with each other in the common task of the interpretation of texts, in order to ensure the survival and relevance of the study of classical literature in the twenty-first century.
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This book aims to promote a simple idea: that, in the contemporary context of the study and interpretation of classical literature at universities, traditional classical scholarship and modern theoretical ideas need to work with each other in the common task of the interpretation of texts. Such dialogue and co-operation is not merely desirable; it is essential to ensure the survival and relevance of the study of classical literature in the twenty-first century.
The purpose of this book is protreptic, to speak both to the sceptical and non-sceptical and to suggest to both the importance of the topic. The topics selected were chosen by a panel of distinguished practitioners as traditional areas of classical literary studies where the importance of co-operation of theory and scholarship could be shown in different ways by scholars who ranged widely in their views: 'literary language', 'narrative', 'genre', 'historicism', and 'reception and history of scholarship'.
There is not an unintelligient or uninteresting essay in this entire volume Barchiesi and Henderson are must-reads, and the witty introductions of Swain and Reeve delightful.
Table of Contents:
The Snares of the Odyssey: Feminist and Narratological Readings
Foreshadowing and Suspense in Herodotus
Latin Studies in Germany 1933-45: Institutional Conditions, Political Pressures, Scholarly Consequences
Pindar meets Plato: Theory, Style and the Classics
Metatext and its functions in Greek Lyric Poetry
The Crossing
Explaining Them to Us: Polybius
Giants on the Shoulders of Dwarfs? Considerations on the Value of Renaissance and Early Modern Scholarship for Today's Classicists
Introduction: Historicism
Introduction: Genre
Purity in Danger: The Contextual Life of Savants
Introduction: Reception/History of Scholarship
Introduction: Narrative
